The Sustainable Aviation Foundation And UC Berkeley Team Up To Host A Holistic View Of Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

The University of California, Berkeley Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) will host the 2019 Sustainable Aviation Symposium (SAS) on October 7-8 of 2019. Dr. Jasenka Rakas from UC Berkeley and Dr. Brien A. Seeley of the Sustainable Aviation Foundation will co-chair the program.

SAS 2019 is focused on safe, quiet, electric aviation solutions to the most pressing problems of our age: climate change, urban surface gridlock, and the need for integrated community and urban planning to enable high proximity aviation at meaningful scale.

This year’s symposium will convene thought leaders to answer these core questions:

• Which systems will win a dominant share of the market and why?
• How will ‘urban air vehicles’ be made “airline-safe” and autonomous?
• What new technologies are needed to converge to optimize the UAM system?
• How will airparks affect wildlands, ground transit & communities large and small?
• How will UAM freight and passengers make last-mile connections?
• How will the air traffic of UAM be managed?
• What roles will urban air vehicles have in emerging economies or natural disasters?

As electric aviation attracts growing investment and aerospace majors enter the space, answers to the questions above are crucial.

(Source: SAS news release. Image from file)

FMI: sustainableaviation.org